Nutrition and poverty
Subtitle: papers from the ACC/SCN 24th Session Symposium, Kathmandu, March 1997.
Series: ACC/SCN symposium report. Nutrition policy paper -- #16; Nutrition policy paper -- #16.
Publisher: World Health Organization
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Malnutrition -- South Asia -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Nutrition Disorders -- congresses.; Poor -- South Asia -- Nutrition -- Congresses.; Poverty -- congresses.; Socioeconomic Factors -- congresses.
Genres: congresses.
Notes: "November 1997."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: An overview / Stuart Gillespie; value: Address by Dr. Naeem U. Hasan, Secretary-General, SAARC; value: The Abraham Horwitz Lecture : poverty and nutrition in South Asia / Siddiq Osmani; value: Malnutrition in South Asia / Urban Jonsson; value: Poverty and its effect on nutrition : some questions based on the Asian experience / Rizwanual Islam; value: Child nutrition, care and poverty / Deepti Chirmulay; value: Poverty alleviation and nutrition enhancement in South Asia : the missing links / Vijay S. Vyas; value: Nutrition and the alleviation of absolute poverty in communities : concept and measurement / Rainer Gross.